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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably?
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:07:42 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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exujbm@exu.ericsson.se (Ben Madison) wrote:

> I use a little perl filter, "unman":
> 
>   #!/usr/local/bin/perl -n
>   s/_[\b]//g;
>   print;

Btw., i forgot to comment on this:

	ul -Tdumb

should be about the same as your `unman' (which should actually be
named `unnroff').

-- 
cheers, J"org

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